HELL CITY TAT CON

HELL CITY (aka) Phoenix

got some new cards made for the convention and some stickers oh yeah and 2 shirt designs also.

new shirts $20 bucks a pop get at me if you want one.

       

and for some reason the new times thought my name was lex. i guess i should have moved that damn shirt over just a few more inches

well it only took 2 years but its finally done.

this one was a combined effort with myself and eric van dyk

this one is on the old shop girl. gift is poison in german

did this one on my girlfriends dad. we will be adding background in the future.

process of a mad man

ok well i took a series of pictures while i was painting this one to show the process of my paintings.

then after all this i fucked it up and just gave it away to a fellow tattooer.

oh well live and learn!

better luck next time i guess

some new ish

butterfly gypsy is complete!

finished up the tribute piece for nate the lead singer of the whoopsie daisies dad. SPIKE! how bad ass is that name? if your into alternative indie music then you should really check them out.

whoopsie daisies

this was a tribute piece to this guys mom. the characters in the banner is his mothers name. this is a healed picture. he sat really well for his first tattoo. especially for the place he got it

finally got ahold of mike to come back in so i could get a healed picture of this one. this was a really fun tattoo to do. i wish more people would come in for stuff like this.

finished up the mitchell family crest. 4 sessions deep on this one. dude sat like a champ. we had one more session after this one to do the family mato  in the banners and a few touch ups. and now we are working on a coverup for his forearm with a cobra. cant wait.

so i started tattooing this guys girl friend and in turn have now started tattooing him. he brought me a picture of a compass rose and a few other ideas. so i drew this up for him. and shazamm! there you have it.

did this painting for the mike devries skull book called "cranial visions". this was pretty fun to paint cause i just painted and didnt worry about staying in the lines or anything like that. pretty relaxing from my usual painting.

been awhile

so i haven't really posted much as of late. been super busy this past month. just got back from hellcity tattoo convention back in my home state of AZ. so anyways here is some of the stuff i have been working on and a few pics of the trips ive been on recently. hope you enjoy.

got anothersession done on the evil sugar skull piece. one more to go and then its moving on to the lower arm. where ill be doing another evil sugar skull with a somberro and playing a trumpet.

hes back. came back in for a healed pic. that yellow stayed bright as hell. bling bling

finished up the indian princess on my beautiful girlfriend. she made it all the way thru it.

heres a few pix from our trip to san cruz. where i got tattooed by edu cerro. we flew into san jose and then drove to san francisco and hung out there for the day. we also went to the Monterey bay aquarium. awesome trip.

        

got a little more work done on the indian princess on my beautiful girlfriend. still have one more sitting to go before we are done. its coming together nicely so far.

started this piece on a friend of me and my girls. lives down the hall from us in the apartment building. this drawing started out as a idea for a skate board, but has since turned into a tattoo. probably have 2 more sitting on this one before its complete

started this one about a week ago. im really happy with the way this one is turning out. our next session is in 2 weeks so ill have the next installment of this one soon.

this is a re-draw of one of my paintings. a woman came into the shop and sad that she seen my painting on the internet and wanted to get something simular. the face looks a little off but its just the angle i took the picture. plus i didnt have my camera so it was taken with my iphone. ill put up the completed pics as son as we finish

this one was a fun one. the guy came in wanting a flyers logo and that was it. it was his first tattoo, and he mentioned that he was wanting to get more tattoos in the future, so after talking with him for awhile we came up with a few ideas. and well this was the out come. flyers logo with an oreole and some california poppies. ill have a healed pic of it as soon as he comes back in for some photos.

guy wanted a navy tattoo. he brought me a pretty rough sketch of what he was lookng for. so i asked him if hed be into me drawing something up for him along the same lines. KaPow!

new ish. fo shizzle

ok so its been a hot minute since i have posted anything on here. so time for an update. i have made it to seattle and I am settling in nicely. i have been super busy since ive started at slave to the needle so i havent had much time for anything other then work and painting here and there when i had a little free time. so here are some of the stuff i have been working on.

la tigra! did this cover up about a month ago still gotta go back into it one more time to erase the memory of johnny for good. 

did this wolf on a really kool lady that asked for a pissed off wolf. so this is what she got for her first tattoo.

did this tat piece  on a guy that wanted the face of the mermaid to look like his wife. BLAMMO! there you go.

this was a cover up that the guy now wants to add on a full sleeve to. he had a pretty messed up story. it involved jail, a crazy ex girlfriend, and other ingredints. anyways he wanted her name covered up with some tribal nonsence. thankfully i talked him out of the tribal and into something more suiting.

did this hannya mask on a guy in the army that him and his buddies were about to head back to afganastan for the third time. he wanted to fill in a spot he had on his arm with a hannya

another late night at the office

Well its been a pretty hectic week for me. Between trying to get packed for the move to seattle, and trying to get as many people with unfinished work in as I can before I leave. I havent had much time for anything else. Once I get to seattle and setteled ill start putting this thing to use a little more often. As for now this ones all i got.

Got to do a little more work on one of the guys from the shops girlfriend tonight. Still got a ways to-go. She showed up a little late so I wasn't able to get as far along as I would have liked to, but that'll have to do till I come back to AZ for another visit